Rarely has a President attacked so many vested interests at one time as Richard Nixon has with his proposed budget cuts. Rarely have so many vested interests joined in trying to make the President back down. Lobbyists have poured into Washington to seek out and pressure members of Congress, many of whom welcome the invasion. They themselves are angry at the President for impounding funds that Congress has appropriated.
As usual, the farmers were among the first to arrive on the scene. Some 1,500 members of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association gathered to denounce a prospective increase in interest for REA...
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